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Simultaneous multiple change-point and factor analysis for high-dimensional time series

Barigozzi, Matteo, Cho, Haeran and Fryzlewicz, Piotr ORCID: 0000-0002-9676-902X (2018) Simultaneous multiple change-point and factor analysis for high-dimensional time series. Journal of Econometrics, 206 (1). pp. 187-225. ISSN 0304-4076

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Identification Number: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2018.05.003

Abstract

We propose the first comprehensive treatment of high-dimensional time series factor models with multiple change-points in their second-order structure. We operate under the most flexible definition of piecewise stationarity, and estimate the number and locations of change-points consistently as well as identifying whether they originate in the common or idiosyncratic components. Through the use of wavelets, we transform the problem of change-point detection in the second-order structure of a high-dimensional time series, into the (relatively easier) problem of change-point detection in the means of high-dimensional panel data. Also, our methodology circumvents the difficult issue of the accurate estimation of the true number of factors in the presence of multiple change-points by adopting a screening procedure. We further show that consistent factor analysis is achieved over each segment defined by the change-points estimated by the proposed methodology. In extensive simulation studies, we observe that factor analysis prior to change-point detection improves the detectability of change-points, and identify and describe an interesting ‘spillover’ effect in which substantial breaks in the idiosyncratic components get, naturally enough, identified as change-points in the common components, which prompts us to regard the corresponding change-points as also acting as a form of ‘factors’. Our methodology is implemented in the R package factorcpt, available from CRAN.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-e...
Additional Information: © 2018 the Authors
Divisions: Statistics
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HA Statistics
Date Deposited: 29 May 2018 16:01
Last Modified: 19 Mar 2024 22:15
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/88110

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